Teresa Michals

Books for Children, Books for Adults

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how ideas about age changed for novels and their readers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781107048546
• ISBN-10: 1107048540
• Artikelnr.: 40546690

Autorenporträt

Teresa Michals is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at George Mason University, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Rewriting Robinson Crusoe: age and the island
3. Dating Pamela: Mr B., Goody Two-Shoes, and the age of consent
4. Rational moralists, highland barbarians, and the taste for adventures
5. Educating Dickens: Old Boys, Little Mothers, and school time
6. 'The time of real amusement': Henry James and the cult of adulthood.